New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1929, Page 15

9 by “Bynopsis: A page out of Andrew of 26 yearly payments of each to “Dillon,” whe scknewledged his blackmail esch year- by sending Cgden a poker chip. Adding to the mystery are the discovery of a speci men of rich gold-bearing quarts and & fiattened load bullet. o CHAPTER 13 THE PETERSON REVOLVER The bullet was flattened, but ‘whether it had snuffed out a human life as MacNair suggested I had no meang of kpowing. “@#e. ‘here, Henry,” I cried sud- @ealy, “have you had Jerry's cloth- Hyde bought the Peterson revolver from Furie ing checked over?” He nodded. "Jerry's khaki ing clothing is missing.” “He couldn’'t have been wearing both khaki and flannels,” I burst forth triumphantly. I felt I had gained a point, Henry got up. “I'm going into town,” he announced briefly. 1 watched him pass out with a feeling of uncasiness. 1 was des- perately afrald of his tenacity of purpose. turning to McNair, 1 said: “You know Jerry's innocence is everything in the world to me. You know my niece is breaking her heart over him. If you have got on to anything—one way or the other— tell me what it is. I don't believe there's an ounce of pity in you! 1 don't believe it matters to you hik- Alex Peterson’s second gu n—found in Ogden’s home whether young Jerry is guilty or not!"” d “Frankly,” he said coolly, “it doesn’t. 8o long as I hang the man =—or woman — who killed Ogden 1 don’'t care whather it's your Jerry, Furie, the woman in black, Hub- bard, Deacon, John Peebles, or his eut, Polyandria.” Turning his back on me he opened the left-hand top drawer of the desk and ‘began to systematical- ly examine its contents. . 1t my role was to be that of Wat- son I was determined that it should be an active one. And so I began a close inspection of the library. I proceeded to the little railed bal- cony outside. Here I came upon something that moved me deeply. It was a dusting of gray white powder in size and form vaguely suggestive of the sole of a man's shoe. I Kknew the powder might Pave been deposited the night be- fore. Dipping the tip of my finger inte the power, I put it to my tongue. “Cement,” 1 muttered. “Mac. Natr!” I called. When 1 pointed to the powder. he drapped onto his Lnees and tasted it. “Cement,” he mused. “Hmm! Looks as It some one who had stepped in cement had stood here.” Puzzted and thoughtful, 1 got up and watched him brush the powder | inte an envelope. He went care- fully over the rest of the balcony. scrutinised the iron grille, and peered down into the adjacent shrubbery. “Nothing else here,” he muttered. T did not feel equal to facing Lucy in my present state of mind, #0 1 lunched with MacNair in town. We were sipping our coffee when my companion said abruptly: “You cannot definitely recall any #ingle detail of the person of that man yeu fought with this morn- ing?" T shook my hcad. “80 far as we know.” MacNair went on. “Hyde waz the only one who knew you had that pistol. How old is he?" “About eighty.” | Alex Peterson revolver LB “Hmn! He wouldn't be likely to fight like a wild cat.” 0. Although he is a man of vnusual vitality.” “Indeed. Well, let’ he’s got to say for himself. | We found Hyde in his office at . the rear of his gloomy shop. He | shook hands with me and as I in- troduced him to MacNair I relect- ed on the strength of his grip. “Dreadful affair up your way last night,” he condoled. “Too bad,” he grieved, zhaking his gaunt old head. *“A dreadful business!” His eagle eyes, 1 saw, to my amase- ment, were moist and he actually blew his nose. *I suppose the boy ee what Jerry hasn't turned up, yet “No,” I replied briefly. “Mr. Mac- Nair is looking after our interests. That pistol you sold me yesterday afternoen figures in the case wish you'd tell us what you know about it." “Ah, the pistol,” he #aid suavely. “No. I don't know anything about it. I saw it was one of Alex Peter- son's and I bought it on your a count.” “Whom did you MacNair rapped out. Hyde pretended to think. “Let me sec, now. Ah, yes! An old man, he was, to be sure. 1 don't know his name. T never saw him before.™ “What did he look like?" “Hmn. He was quite old, should fay, and of less than the middle helght. That's about all 1 buy it from? remember of him. Dear me! this| memory of mine!"” MacNair ignored his pretense of forgettulness. “Had he a wizened- | up little face the color of saddic leather, red-rimmed eyes, a shock of unkemipt white hair, an eyeglass on a wire and the look of a man who has, ‘et us say, prospected for gold all his life?"” I though Hyde was going to lose his temper but he gave us his sly smile instead. MacNair's question didn't surprise me. I had already concluded that Hyde had got the Peterson pistol from Furie. “You Hyde to me He put on his glasses and felt in the tail of his coat. For a momen: he fumbled there. His hand came | away empty and T gucssed he had been after his Louis snuff-box. “You were going tu say. Mr. Mac- Nair?” he inquired blandly. “That the name of the man you bought the pistol from is ‘Furie’!” MacNair rapped out. Hyde chuckled. “Perhaps it was. | A queer chap, Furie.” “Did he tell you where he found | the revolver?" “No, he didn't.” “Have you any idea where the! revolver came from:? “Not the slightest.” 1 think he reatized that we didn't | believe him for he leaned forward | with a confiding air. “Here's a tip that'll stir you up. gentlemen. 1 could have sold that pistol again after Peebles bought it *To whom?" “To Andrew Ogden,” sgid Nathan are said quite well informed,” smoothly. “Why come 1| Hyde. “He telephoned me about it | at aix o'clock last night.” “What did Ogden say?” MacNair inquired. i The dealer chuckled slyly. i asked me what 1'd done with the| Furie had| sold me. 1 said it had gone and 1| thought he'd jump out of the tele- phone at me. ‘Who's got 117" he barked. 1 told him and he cooled down.” NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1920 LLETS MacNair looked at me. “That was why Ogden telephoned you.” I nodded unhappily, overwhelmel by a sense of failure. If I had gon: to Andrew at once he probaby, wpuld have been alive now. CHAPTER 14 RAW GOLD “Did you tell any else that Pee- bles had bought the Peterson re- volver?” MacNair inquired of Hyde. “Dear me, no! Why should I haye?™ “Hmn!" said MacNair. “Well, every man to his taste. Some go in for pistols, some for pottery, some for pictures My hobby is swords.” Hyde smiled and rubbed his hands. “Ah, to be sure. I have a very fine Japahese sword guard by Masamune in the shop. Perhaps you'd like to see it.” “§ should.” said MacNair. Hyde excused himself. The mo- ment he' was gone MacNair stiff- ened in his chair and listenea at- tentively. Then, quick as a cat and bent double, he slid over to ?l)de\'fi shabby desk, leaned across it, and, to my amazement, opened the top drawer. MacNair stared down into the drawer for a mo- ment, then he slippéd quietly’ back to his chair, Before 1 could demand the rea- son of this extraordinary conduct Hyde reappeared with the sword. “A beautiful bit of workmanshi Mr. MacNair” the smoothly. “Hmu!" MacNair responded dry- ot bad. How much?" "‘fl)d 'SA:Iagle eyes narrowed a S yes. The figure is just MacNair you havea't months from $500." y dear Mr. MacNair,” Hyde protested, I couldn't take a penny lcss than $1,200." “Well, put it away and we'll talk ahout it a coupl> of months hence. Do you know ything more about this Peterson pistol 2" The old pirate shrugged. followed us to the door. We teft him then. “A Deautiful liar!" harshly. as we crossed the street. “What was in the drawer? “I€ ycu hai been watching him closely as we entered the office you would have seen him snap that drawer shut. 1 concluded there as somethiek n it that he didn't want us to see. so 1 determined to find out what it was." “Curious,” 1 remarked, “hut when 1 dropped in on Hyde yester- day afternoon he flipped a letter over some ohject on his desk. 11am- p. dealer said ly. laughed ironicaliy. sold now, i it in, say, two T'll give you He mond. one of ou- lawyers. was with | upstairs. One of the stubs was| chue, a fellow committeeman. The | MacNair said | scemed startied at my appegrance. Well, what did you fin “A bit of rich gold quartz like that piece Deacon came upon in Ogden’s desk.” “You don’'t say T exclaimed. “F'll bet that was what Hyde cov- ered up yesterday afternoon. Gold quartz, eh! Do you connect it with Furie?” “Hubbard's description of Furie suggested an < old desert rat and a connection is inferable, of course.” “That would bring Hyde into the case,” 1 muttered. “Hammond. too. maybe. By the way, Hammond was a prospector in-his younger days.” And T told MacNair what 1 knew of him. ¥ “Interesting,” he muttered. “But it by ro means eliminates young Ogden. However, we have two possible lines of inquiry. apen be- fore us. Blackmail is one of them: the gold-hunting instinet is the oth- er. One of them should lead us fo Ogden’s murderer. They may con- verge before we find him." ¥ goes Hammond, now." | rhe lawyer Aid not sce us. Turn- ling. we ‘ollywed him with our eves. He came to Hyde's shop. and entering it. disappeared from { our sight. | The inquest was held that after- |roon. Stimson, Hubbard. and I. were the principal ! witnesses. T told | my story truthfully, but T was care- |ful to make it clear that I had | neither seen Jerry's face nor heard | his voice on the walk. Stimson | hadn't cither. The Peterson re. | volver, my experience of the early | morning. and the curious discov- | eries Deacon had made among Og- | den's effects’ were not introduced | as evidence. Nor did luther Mac- | Nair present any af his theories. jury founi that Andrew had | died of a dagger thrust in the back | of his neck, inflicted, in its opinion, | by Gerald Ogden. the victim's son, It was late afternoon when 1 [swung the car into Magnolia ave- | nue, MacNair beside me. Deacon | had promised to meet us at the Og- den home. We found Deacon in the library. He gave us a grave nod. “Any word of Jerry?" I asked. | “None, John." A new fear seized upon me. | Jerry, like Andrew, becn laway with? “You saw Hyde?" Deacon asked odding, MacNair lighted a cig- larctte. Henry's honest face was | troubled. “Anything new?” T inquired. | He considered us thoughtfully | for a moment. “Yes. About this | woman in black. Her na dy. Mrs. Joe Lundy, Andrew gave | her a check the other day.” 2" 1 echoed. Henry Had done said slowly. “for $1.00¢ 1 “Ogden reems to have heen lib leral with his cash,” MacNair drawled. “How did you get on to it | My che man Thompson k hook in the pocket of a suit “Hello," T cried, suddenly. “There | me is Lun- | $1.000. den's bank, check was cashed yesterday. Mrs. Lundy is this woman in black. The teller re- membered her by the odd clothing she wore.” The information What possible connection could this strange figure, Mrs. Lundy. have with the tragedy of the night before? Dcacon must have sensed my thoughts. “She can’t be this ‘James Dil- lon.’ ” he said sharply. { "It was no woman that fought | me this morning,” I declared vig- orously. - | “Never mind Mrs. Lundy just |now.” he growled. “She doesn't | it — vet. T found something else.” | He opened a drawer in the det |“This. 1t was wrapped paper on the | bedroom closet.” | At what he had brought forth 1 | cried out *n astonishment. | “Alex Peterson’'s gun,” pered. | “Alex Petersons other gun,” Dea- | con replicd. | The Colt was a |one I had bought | Hyde. T ejected the cartridges |into my palm. There were six of |them and the bullets were gold! 3! Peterson would have two | Buns.” MacNair said crisply. “Those s alvays had. 1 thought we should be turning it up.” (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) We got in touch with Og- the First National. The the day before bewildered me. in olled T whis. replica of the from Nathan Alex Peterson’s second revolver | found in Ogden’s home! Are Peter- son and Ogden the same man? Con- tinue the glory with tomorrow's chapter. SLATE OF OFFICERS OFT.A.B. SOCIETY {Humason Nominated for Presi- dent—Dance for Gast of Show William J. lHumason was nomi- nated for the presidency of the Y. M. T. 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